Archives|ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. RISE IN ICE; Hew York's Big Trust Limits Harvest and Controls Distribution. MAY BE FURTHER ADVANCE Big Dividends and Market Manipulation the Cause. OLD PRICE WARRANTED American Company, However, Has a Monopoly and Squeezes Rich and Poor Alike.

ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. RISE IN ICE; Hew York's Big Trust Limits Harvest and Controls Distribution. MAY BE FURTHER ADVANCE Big Dividends and Market Manipulation the Cause. OLD PRICE WARRANTED American Company, However, Has a Monopoly and Squeezes Rich and Poor Alike.

May 6, 1900

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The sixty-million-dollar Ice Trust, known as the American Ice Company, which has succeeded in securing what is practically an absolute monopoly of the ice business in New York City, has just increased the cost of ice to consumers 100 per cent., and threatens further advance, in prices. This 100 per cent, tax upon a commodity that is a necessity to all the people of this city has aroused the bitterest feeling in the community. View Full Article in Timesmachine »